You Should Be Worrying about the Woman Shortage
In the 80s and 90s, Newsweek Magazine delivered US women the cheery news that they were more likely to be killed by a terrorist than to find a husband after age 40. There were too many women—supposedly—and not enough men, and women were the losers. And, of course, staying single was a horrible fate.
We are learning right now what happens when the sex ratio becomes wildly out of whack, through a huge unintended experiment.